1. To find a couple of homemade scones in the bottom of the freezer -- these are particularly good recipe from Abel and Cole, carrot cake scones. I put them out ready for tea.
2. The physio is baffled and bit offended that the knots in my shoulder don't seem to be shifting. Or, rather, they are shifting, but across to my arm and then back to my shoulder. It suddenly occurs to me that we are chatting about the town's primary school situation and how it will affect Alec. We stop that right away and agree never to mention it again.
3. Nick and Alec come back from their walk with the news that there was an actual pilot, in his uniform, complete with insignia, in the Aeroplane Bookshop.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...